ReadyBoost Benchmarks: Doom 3, FEAR

Doom 3
takes advantage of the latest videocard technology and pushes the processing
power of the CPU to its absolute limit. At its highest setting, Ultra quality,
texture sizes pass the 500MB mark which means even tomorrow's videocards will
have a hard time running everything. The frame rates in the game itself are
locked at 60 fps so anything above that point is wasted. Each test is run three
times with the third run being recorded.

Doom 3

LQ 640x480

FPS

Ranking

512MB System Memory

144.6

512MB System Memory
512MB ReadyBoost

145.3

512MB System Memory 1GB
ReadyBoost

147.6

512MB System Memory 2GB
ReadyBoost

147.6

512MB System Memory 4GB
ReadyBoost

147.6

1GB System Memory

168.3

1GB System Memory 1GB
ReadyBoost

170.4

1GB System Memory 2GB
ReadyBoost

170.5

1GB System Memory 4GB
ReadyBoost

170.5

2GB System Memory

178.5

2GB System Memory 2GB
ReadyBoost

178.5

2GB System Memory 4GB
ReadyBoost

178.5

4GB System Memory

178.6

4GB System Memory 4GB
ReadyBoost

178.6

ReadyBoost does boost overall framerates very slightly
with the 512MB system RAM configuration, which is a surprise. I guess there's a
bit of HDD access when running the Doom3 demo. In any case ReadyBoost does not
make a significant impact here.

FEAR is
Sierra's latest first person shooter which relies heavily on DirectX 9 features.
With its "Soft Shadows" feature enabled, even the fastest videocards run at a
crawl, FEAR is definitely the new benchmark for future FPS games to
follow.

FEAR

Minimum 640x480

FPS

Ranking

512MB System Memory

417

512MB System Memory
512MB ReadyBoost

427

512MB System Memory 1GB
ReadyBoost

430

512MB System Memory 2GB
ReadyBoost

430

512MB System Memory 4GB
ReadyBoost

430

1GB System Memory

462

1GB System Memory 1GB
ReadyBoost

465

1GB System Memory 2GB
ReadyBoost

465

1GB System Memory 4GB
ReadyBoost

465

2GB System Memory

497

2GB System Memory 2GB
ReadyBoost

498

2GB System Memory 4GB
ReadyBoost

498

4GB System Memory

502

4GB System Memory 4GB
ReadyBoost

502

Again we see that with 512MB of memory installed,
ReadyBoost does improve framerates slightly. When the system has 1GB or more of
memory installed ReadyBoost has no impact at all.